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17a"Husband leaving nurse in leafy glade"(6)
Answer-"arbour"-leafy glade yes,but nurse,husband??
No understand
bulldog

Probably "to harbour" = "to nurse", no?

I suppose the clue is equating nurse with Harbour

(H) arbour

...."h" standing for husband", of course!

I thought it a bit iffy but it's in Bradford's

Thanks all
Still not happy.Quite a few odd ones today.
never like it when fail to understand
bulldog

Re 'Harbour' - I read it as 'To HARBOUR a grudge' is synonymous with 'To NURSE a grudge'.

14d. Blunder by individual turning up hidden bomb, perhaps (5,4) - BOOBY TRAP (hidden bomb)

If 'Blunder' is BOOB or BOOBY, then why is 'Individual PART or PARTY?

19a. Miser, for example returned, after wages, we hear (7) - SCROOGE (Miser)

I can see GE for 'For example returned', but that leaves SCROO for 'Wages we hear' - I assume it's a homophone, but of what? - or am I completely off base?

party as in "party of the first part"

screw= "Chiefly British Slang Salary; wages"

Screw

Def
5

BRITISH informal dated
an amount of salary or wages.
"he's offered me the job with a jolly good screw"